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leech_ Grand Master

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yea 8 million is good but i would have thought a proper track would cost more than that ??? could be wrong though and i would be giving it 2 - 3 years before any thing starts to happen with it... planning will take them forever as no matter were they put it someone will bitch about the nature problems or noise pollution etc etc

hope it gets up though.

blackdoggette Collaborator

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Gezz, finally !!

They have been crapping on about it for so long...

Hmmm, 8 million...  Will that build a 1/8 mile or a 1/4 mile strip.  I hope that they will build a 1/4 mile strip...

J

OMG - surely they wouldn't be so STUPID as to put another 1/8 mile in????-- :D

Nah - no way will organisers let that happen again!!!!

banger Apprentice

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It'd be really nice, but I wonder how good an $8million dollar 1/4 mile would be, (not being scarcastic) because I remember hearing that WSID cost the govt close to $30 million. WSID is a world class facility though..... so a not so awesome venue in Canberra may scrape in a little cheaper..... any thoughts.... even better.... anyone out there built a dragway before? :)

Jay95R33 Grand Master

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It'd be really nice, but I wonder how good an $8million dollar 1/4 mile would be

I'd be happy with a flat 1/4 bit of tar, staging lights, and a finish line... Oh, and a sand trap at the end :)

I reckon we could the boys together and knock one up in a weekend for a couple of hundred bucks :D

:)

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Fitzpatrick Speed Works Mentor

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man dont believe the stanhope government ive heard that they have basically said yeah will put the money up but stall for as long as it takes on giving land over so basically its election games o they look good to the public, however that said im dark on the liberals as well as they promised a dragway when they had power and renigged your pushing s.hit uphill trying to believe a polly.

Bluprint Veteran

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I'll believe it when I see it, and believe me I'd like to see it

I remember reading something on Performance Forums the other day about someone picking up on a loophole to do with the lease that the farmers are on out at Majura, which would allow the government to say "Oh, bugger, can do it there. And now we have to find another suitable venue. Which is too hard. Oh well."

r33skylinegtst Mentor

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Ha, they'll say anything to get into power, but they rarely follow through. I remain unconvinced. They may go about finding a site, but like eveyone said, it'll just fall through or something and the government won't talk about doing anything again till the next election.

blackdoggette Collaborator

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I agree guys - my initial excitement has died down a bit - the more I think about it and the more I read about it and hear their broken promises from the past, I am firmly convinced it is just an election furphy as well..... Unless they can commit to a site (and the greenies don't find that two toed pink frog) then there is no way I am going to vote for em this election....

:);):P

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